Carl Haacker

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Carl Paul Haacker , also Karl Haacker , (born July 26, 1890 in Berlin , German Empire , † December 15, 1945 in Berlin, Germany ) was a German set designer . Together with Robert Scharfenberg , he was one of the most important proletarian communist film architects.

Life

Haacker was the son of a painter. He learned his father's trade and became a decorative painter at the theater. From 1915 to 1918 he worked in the repair department of AEG Hennigsdorf . Since 1908 a member of the union, since 1917 of the USPD and then of the Spartakusbund , he was taken into political custody in February 1918 and co-founded a soldiers' council at the Küstrin fortress on November 9, 1918 . He later became a member of a communist workers' council at AEG and was subsequently dismissed. Organized in the KPD since 1919 , he wrote appeals and designed leaflets.

He took lessons from the painters Wilhelm Blanke and Stötzner-Lund and from 1920 worked as a decorative painter for film. In 1925/26 Carl Haacker stayed in Odessa to set up the WUFKU (All-Ukrainian State Cinema Administration) film studio there. When he returned, he was released for participating in the 1927 film strike. In 1929 he was responsible for furnishing the party congress of the KPD and in 1931 for the exhibition 10 years of the IAH . In 1929 he worked for the Prometheus Film affiliated with the IAH .

The best-known films for whose buildings he was responsible include Jenseits der Straße (1929, director: Leo Mittler ), Mother Krausens Fahrt ins Glück (1929, director: Phil Jutzi ), Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World? (1932, directed by Slatan Dudow ) and tow tractor M 17 (1933, directed by Werner Hochbaum ).

In April 1933 Haacker was expelled from the Reich Association of German Artists . During the time of National Socialism , Haacker was only able to work occasionally as a temporary worker and freelancer in film studios, including with his colleague Hermann Warm for films by Erich Engel . From 1942 he worked in the technical management of Tobis in Berlin-Johannisthal.

Carl Haacker was again active in the KPD and in the trade union after the end of the war. On November 12, 1945 he was entrusted by the German Central Administration for National Education with the supervision and security of the entire Tobis facility. He was involved in the reorganization of the German film industry and belonged to the group of people who later formed the founders of DEFA . Before he could start his work as chief architect at DEFA, Haacker had a fatal accident in a traffic accident.

His daughter is the actress Sonja Haacker (* 1932).

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SURNAME Haacker, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haacker, Carl Paul (full name); Haacker, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1945
Place of death Berlin , Germany